I had a case in Pennsylvania years ago, where I had to investigate a fatality.

A group of teenage misfits in a car driving erratically in figure eights in an open field.

One of them gets out to pee.

The driver and rest of them [4] take off in circles, then decide to 'scare' the piss out of their buddy by aiming at him speeding from a distance.

About 50 yards away, is when the 'peer' realized he was about to be run down, so he began to 'dart' side to side…the car hit a large stone on the ground and flipped over_ throwing one of the unbelted occupants out and landing with the roof _ on top of him.

They all tried to 'lift' the car off the hapless teen…to no avail…he slowly died with his life crushed out of him.

Say a reasonably fit person recognizes the intent about 100 yards away…he is in a very large field, no place to run into or hide no trees, no large rocks to hide behind…nothing.

I know it sounds counter-intuitive...But I'd like to think I could summon the cojones to run right at it and attempt to either:A. Go side-ways right through the frigging windshield...or B. Jump and roll, trusting in my Aikido training to preserve life and limb and recover quickly enough to use the fact that the car has to turn around to come at me again to my advantage.

Very true, Jason. Anything can happen at any time to any of us ever caught in a survival situation no matter what we do or think we know.

When it comes right down to it, the essence of survival in any engagement is to understand and cultivate the 'SWITCH' _ the one that takes you from civilized, law-abiding, all-around nice guy to snarling, reactive, intuitive and primal animal.

Always cultivate the theory that you need to do something unexpected by the opponent who is proceeding on assumptions.

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